I receive this message after clicking on any play button( ie. Instant Play) in DCS World v1.2: "DCS World Has Stopped Working" crash to desktop. I have no modules loaded in DCS World. My independent version of DCS Blackshark v1 works great on my VISTA 64 OS. I repaired/updated C++ redist. for both 64 and 32.

I'm bummed I was ready to buy BS2 and I will as soon as this problem is resolved.

Hi aeross60
Can you give more details on the CTD , have you check for dcs crash logs, you
can find them in c:\users\yourname\savedgames\dcs\logs, maybe you check
the windows eventlogs. just click start-> Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools ->event viewer -> windows logs -> applications

When I run the DCS world for about 13 hours then I get the DCS world has stopped working message as well. I deleted the DCS world, re-installed DCS world, and now I'm running the DCS world with the graphic settings at medium. Thanks!

I am posting here because for the last 4-5 months since a specific update (now unable to remember which one) I have the same problem to OP. Loading DCS World and in 10% crashing to desktop. Now I saw that all of the modules require at least 6GB RAM to run. I have only 4GB ram and until the update I spoke of above, the game was running almost fine. Could this be the problem not allowing me to run the game at all? And if yes, why did you change the min requirements and made the game unplayable for so many of us who when they bought the modules didn't have any problem with their systems spec?

An additional question which is a bit off-topic. If I use the registry key to delete all activation data, should I run seperate keys for every module and do I lose an activation or not?

Because the world moves on, with or without us it will continue to revolve around the sun. Get on board or not. It's up to U. sounds a bit mean but it is the truth of it.

Be well my friend. As some guys replied to me in steam forums (unofficial of course), change was done since 2013, so if this happened, I should get a message about my memory not enough so as to be sure what is the problem.